Saturday, February 22, 2014

Ranking economics research in Missouri

My annual update of economics research rankings in Missouri is appearing earlier than in the past. This is because there have been several changes in affiliations and I wanted the information to be more accurate by doing it in the middle of the academic year.

The good news is that my own department, the Center for Economics and the Environment at
Lindenwood University, remains among the top five academic departments
in Missouri. Here is the ranking, which is taken from this page at RePEc and excludes the states' two Federal Reserve banks because of their idiosyncratic methods for counting people.

Rank

Department

Score

1

Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis

2.75

2

Olin School of Business, Washington University in St. Louis

4.15

3

Economics Department, University of Missouri

5.01

4

Center for Economics and the Environment, Lindenwood
University

8.5

5

Department of Economics, University of Missouri-St. Louis

11.3

The bad news is that my personal ranking has fallen from being tied in 17th place to being tied in 21st place after several higher-ranked economists moved into Missouri in the past 6 months or so. So let's count that as good news because it's always better to be surrounded by smart people. The ranking below uses RePEc's Wu-index,
which is the most-sensible method that RePEc provides.